"TAP has given us a proper structure for all of our training and has also given us a professional status that we didn't have before"

Fred Webb Implementation Manager, HM Land Registry

"We wanted to work in partnership with a like-minded organisation that had a proven track record in trainer development but was flexible and pragmatic enough to meet Tesco needs"

Nicola Steele Tesco Academy Director

"I am a convert to the TAP Learning System and believe it should be a requirement of all trainers"

Neil Hart Training Team Leader, University of Oxford

"I now consider myself a Learning and Development professional. That in itself is testament to what the TAP learning system has done for me but it has also changed the way our team is viewed within our organisation"

Simon Meekings Senior Trainer, Atkins Global

"I have been privileged to see the work of The Training Foundation in action. This gave me the opportunity to see highly creative, dynamic teaching carried out with a clear and sympathetic understanding of the needs of the learners involved."

Dr Phil Alston Education Consultant

"My team now have the credibility to consult with stakeholders, consistently design using proven methodology and confidently facilitate training that is engaging for the learner"

Nicola Heffner Delivery Manager,  Learning, UK Retail,  RBS

"All our Trainers are accredited using TAP Qualifications. TAP’s learner-centred approach ensures that the needs of all our delegates are identified and supported."

Alan Stevens Quality & Funding Manager, Kwik-fit

"With 25,000 TAP-Certified trainers now active in every sector, more than 3 million learners a year are experiencing improved learning as a direct result. That's our 15-year milestone reached, but there's still a long way to go!"

Nick Mitchell Founder and CEO
The Training Foundation

"The Training Foundation is celebrating 15 years. I think it's fair to say that without them I wouldn't have the incredibly rewarding career path I'm on now"

Leon Robinson NIITT

"The TAP methodology and technique has really helped encourage us. As well as reassuring us that what we were doing was a good approach, it taught us new skills & tips that improved our training."

Hannah Wallbridge Skandia

"I have been an advocate for the TAP methodology for many years as it demonstrates the professional development of every trainer in my team"

Paul Ingleby Regulated Training Manager,   AXA Wealth

"The Training Foundation has contributed more than any other organisation in the UK to the up-skilling of learning and development professionals in the use of new learning technologies"

Clive Shepherd Consultant and Author of The Blended Learning Cookbook and The New Learning Architect

"The TAP Learning System is continuously being developed. The new 2012 Diplomas in Quality Assurance and Work-based Learning can now enable Heads of L&D to deliver an even broader range of quality services"

Ron Mackrell Director of the TAP Partners Programme

"It was clear that a wide range of organisations were employing practitioners qualified through the TAP Learning System, so in 2007 the BILD recognised TAP qualifications for all grades of professional membership"

Jack Wills Chair, the British Institute for Learning & Development

"I would say that, for any trainer, in any organisation, a TAP Diploma is the qualification they definitely need. It really means something in the training world"

Chris Norburn Director, Training Matters

"The qualifications our Trainers have achieved with The Training Foundation have made a real difference to the quality and professionalism of our training"

Gareth Roberts Head of Training,   Admiral Group

"The TAP methodology is central to our L&D strategy at Fidessa. It ensures consistently high standards in all training we provide our internal/ external customers"

Nick Halder Learning & Development Manager, Fidessa

"Well-structured training and development ‘routes’ for today’s Learning and Development Specialists"

David Jones Services Business Transformation Manager,
Rolls-Royce

"I would have no hesitation in recommending the TAP methodology to evaluate and train trainers"

Stuart Lowry Training Director,  Capita Learning & Development

"The benefit to our business of having all TAP-qualified trainers is that both the delegates and the sponsors know they are receiving a consistent standard of training. The reputation of our training team has grown"

Emma Parnell Atkins IS

"TAP qualifications are a key part of our training strategy to develop outstanding in-house trainers and design innovative programmes that have won national training awards"

Andy Lancaster Learning and Development Manager, Hanover Housing Association

"If we don’t have guaranteed consistency of performance of trainers then everything else we do is a waste of time. That is one of the reasons why I am personally very interested in TAP, which does offer precisely that"

Michael Stark Head of Workforce Development, the Learning & Skills Council 2002